The Youth Media Awards have been announced … and three Maine authors/illustrators have been named:
Here are the awards in alphabetical order:
Alex Awards — “ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences”
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Oxford Project by Stephen G. Bloom
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
Three Girls and Their Brother by Theresa Rebeck
The Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
Over and Under by Todd Tucker
Mildred L. Batchelder Award – “for the most outstanding children’s book originally published in a language other than English in a country other than the United States and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States”
Batchelder Honor Books
Garmann’s Summer written by Stian Hole, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett
Tiger Moon written by Antonia Michaelis, translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Batchelder Award
Morbito: Guardian of the Spirit by Nahoko Uehashi, translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano
Pura Belpre Awards — “honoring Latino/Latina authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates Latino/Latina cultural experience in children’s books”
Pura Belpre Author Honor Books
Just in Case written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales
Reaching Out written by Francisco Jimenez
The Storyteller’s Candle / La velita de los cuentos written by Lucia Gonzalez, illustrated by Lulu Delacre
Pura Belpre Author Award
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Greatness by Margarita Engle
Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor Books
Papa and Me written by Arthur Dorros, illustrated by Rudy Guiterrez
The Storyteller’s Candle / La velita de los cuentos written by Lucia Gonzalez, illustrated by Lulu Delacre
What Can You Do with a Rebozo? written by Carmen Tafolla, illustrated by Amy Cordova
Pura Belpre Author Illustrator Award
Just in Case written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales
Andrew Carnegie Medal – “for excellence in children’s video”
March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
Randolph Caldecott Medal — “for the most distinguished American picture book for children”
Caldecott Honor Books
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever written and illustrated by Marla Freeze
How I Learned Geography written and illustrated by Uri Shulevitz
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Caldecott Medal
The House in the Night written by Susan Marie Swanson, illustrated by Beth Krommes
Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books
The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Coretta Scott King Author Award
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Before John was a Jazz Giant written by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Sean Qualls
The Moon Over Star by Dianna Hutts ASton, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award
Bird written by Zetta Elliott, illustrated by Shadra Strickland
Margaret A. Edwards Award — “for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults” –Laurie Halse Anderson
Theodor Seuss Geisel Award – “for the most distinguished book for beginning readers”
Geisel Honor Books
Chicken said, ”Cluck!” written by Judyann Ackerman Grant, illustrated by Sue Truesdell
One Boy written and illustrated by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Stinky written and illustrated by Eleanor Davis
Geisel Award
Are You Ready to Play? written and illustrated by Mo Willems
William C. Morris Award — for the best young adult work by a first-time author, selected from five named finalists
A Curse Dark as Gold written by Elizabeth C. Bunce
John Newbery Award – “for the most distinguished contribution to children’s literature”
Newbery Honor Books
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Greatness by Margarita Engle
Savvy by Ingrid Law
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Newbery Medal
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production
Odyssey Honor Audiobooks
Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady narrated by Kathleen Kellgren
Elijah of Buxton narrated by Mirron WIllis
I’m Dirty narrated by Steve Buscemi
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale written andnarrated by Carmen Agra Deedy
Nation narrated by Stephen Briggs
Odyssey Award
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian written and narrated by Sherman Alexie
Michael L. Printz Award — “for excellence in literature written for young adults”
Printz Honor Books
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Natio, Volume II: The Kingdom of the Waves by M.T. Anderson
Tender Morsels by Margaret Lanagan
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Printz Award
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Schneider Family Book Award — “for books that embody the artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences”
… for Young Children – Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum written and illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker
… for Middle School — Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
… for teens — Jerk, California by Jonathan Friesen
Robert F. Sibert Medal — “for most distinguished informational book for children”
Sibert Honor Books
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Rediscovery of the Past by James M. Deem
What To Do About ALice: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, CHarmed the World and Drove Her Father Crazy written by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Edwin Fotherington
Sibert Medal
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award — “honors an author or illustrator whose books are published in the United States and have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children” – Ashley Bryan
